Church Of All Saints

The following building shall be added:

SD 71 SE ORRELL STREET

326-/5/10011 Church of All Saints

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Anglican church. 1843, with minor C20 alterations. By John Harper of York, architect. Regularly-coursed, squared sandstone blocks with ashlar dressings,and Welsh-slated roofs. Transeptal plan in the Romanesqe style ,with an east tower above the nave,choir vestry, organ chamber,north and south transepts, broad nave and porch at west end. 3-stage tower with shallow clasping buttresses to first stage and tall semi-circular headed 2-light window serving chancel on west face. 3rd stage with tall triple arched belfry openings below cornice and shallow ashlar parapet. Single-storey choir vestry to north,then tall gabled organ chamber with multi-foil window to gable apex, above a pair of tall lancets. Further west, gable to north transept with deeply recessed blind semi-circular arched opening, flanked by blind 5-bay arcades. Above,tall 3-light window with deeply-chamfered reveals, set upon moulded string course. 3 1/2 bay nave, the bays delineated by shallow buttresses. Stylised corbel table below eaves. Broad west gable with central gabled porch having semi circular arched double doorway to centre. South transept repeats detail of that to north. Further east,flat roofed clergy vestry with semi-circular headed doorway to east. Interior; few original furnishings survive, but west gallery retains enclosed pews behind arcaded front panel. Staircases to gallery with simple turned balusters. Shafts to crossing with simple cushion capitals. C20 screen to north transept, and C20 panelling to chancel. Memorial windows to John Henry Thompson, d. 1941, depicting St Martin and St George on nave north wall. The church is an example of the Italian Romanesque style popular throughout the country in the 1840's.

Listing NGR: SD7945811144